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Re: [Devel] Oblique Type1 fonts leave first glyph roman
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Tom Kacvinsky |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] Oblique Type1 fonts leave first glyph roman |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:32:49 -0500 (EST) |
OK, I get this behavior with Lucida Bright Oblique (a B&H font hinted, etc...
by Y&Y). ftview doesn't have a problem with the font, but ftstring does. This
first glyph is indeed rendered upright instead of obliqued. Hrmmm...
I will look into this.
Tom
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Keith Packard wrote:
>
> XFree86 was given six Type1 faces by Bigelow and Holmes, roman and oblique
> for a serif, sans and mono-spaced version in their lucidux style. When I
> rasterize the oblique versions with FreeType 2.0.1, the first glyph which
> is rasterized is upright rather than oblique. Here are the matrices from
> the two serifed faces:
>
> % oblique matrix from lcdxro.pfa
> /FontMatrix [0.001 0 0.0002 0.001 0 0] readonly def
>
> % roman matrix from lcdxrr.pfa
> /FontMatrix [0.001 0 0 0.001 0 0] readonly def
>
> I can't think what I might be doing wrong in using the face that would
> cause this problem. Also interesting:
>
> The IBM Type1 rasterizer in the X server works fine.
>
> The error occurs with either monochrome or grayscale rendering
>
> It doesn't matter what glyph is rasterized first, even ' ' makes
> further glyphs work correctly.
>
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